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The logbooks : Connecticut's slave ships and human memory / Anne Farrow.

Van Pelt Library E445.C7 F37 2014
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Farrow, Anne, author.
Series:
Driftless Connecticut series
A driftless Connecticut series book
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Saltonstall, Dudley, 1738-1796.
Saltonstall, Dudley.
Slave trade--Connecticut--History.
Slave trade.
Slavery--Connecticut.
Slavery.
Collective memory.
History.
Bunce Island (Sierra Leone)--History.
Bunce Island (Sierra Leone).
Collective memory--New England.
New England.
Connecticut.
Physical Description:
xiv, 187 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2014]
Contents:
1 Recovering the Story
Cleared for Africa 1
Shadows on the Wall 4
Creating a Record 7
"How Did You Find Me?" 18
2 The Haunted Land
Meeting the Slave Traders 21
Another Century, Not My Own 29
The Past in Dreams 32
History for an Abandoned Place 35
The Screaming Man 48
The Story of a Stone 55
The Slaughterhouse 60
3 Trouble in Mind
A Book with Many Bookmarks 69
A Platform for Memory 73
The Pain That Survives 86
The Fragile Power 91
History That Won't End 96
4 A History that Doesn't "FIT"
Back to Africa 101
To Live in Peril on the Sea 110
Not a Word but a World 115
The Slave Trade's Men in Full 117
5 Separations
A Visit to Madina 131
This Far, and No Further 140
Legacy 144
Lost and Found 146
Our Choice Is the Truth or Nothing 151.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
0819573051
9780819573056
OCLC:
877371204
Publisher Number:
99960451574

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